The start of the marathon was at 04:30 pm. The start was late because of the temperature and it’s always nice to run over the strip in the dark with all the lights !

There were different kind of corrals and depending of your end time you think you could run, you were given a corral number. I hoped to finish in 4 hour and 30 minutes. There were also pacers and I choose the one of 04:30.

Unfortunally the pacer wanted to run at a pace of 10km/h and then have different walks as rest. This tempo was too much for me and I had a different strategy. Every 10K I wanted to have a break so that my heart could rest a little bit.

The first 13.1 mile I did it in 2:20 including 6 minutes of break. Which is not bad for a first time !

At the 25k I got cramps in my arm and later in my legs. Now I was calculating how I could finish within the time. It was still a long time to go. There is one thing what worked for me and that is walking at a pace of 6.5-7km/h. This saved my, so that I could finish 15 minutes before the deadline !

In the last part there was a lot of music and still a lot of people to cheer you to the finish line.

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Dad with diabetes ! Likes to hike, run and is kinda nerdy sometimes. Joost can write about any thoughts he got !.
Joost van der Made is a Consulting Systems Engineer in the DC team of the Netherlands. With 15+ years of IT experience on different technologies like networking, collaboration, wireless and data center, He worked for different kind of companies and always with Cisco equipment. The last 10 years, Joost is working for Cisco .Joost has a lot of Hyperflex hands-on experience and he likes to write about it on his personal blog asides with other topics.
Joost is CCIE #19958 for Collaboration, Wireless and Data Center.